Вакансія: Operations Specialist for UNOPS Ukraine – international position

UNOPS Office in Ukraine is established on the request from President of Ukraine Mr. Petro Poroshenko and in line with the Host Country Agreement with Ukraine signed on November 22, 2016.

The UNOPS Eastern Europe – Ukraine Office is an Operations Center for the delivery of services in Ukraine under Europe and Central Asia Region (ECR). At the same time the UNOPS Eastern Europe – Ukraine Office is expected to perform the role of UNOPS Eastern European Operational Hub as it will be providing support and coordination for UNOPS activities in the sub-region.

The purpose of the UNOPS Eastern Europe – Ukraine Office is to provide efficient and effective delivery of support to development, peace-keeping and humanitarian partners in Ukraine and other countries of the sub-region (Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan) through its national and regional programmes, as well as within the scope of global portfolios.

The UNOPS Eastern Europe – Ukraine Office will strengthen UNOPS capacity to support the Governments of the sub-region in their vital needs related countries development as well as provides better opportunity to access innovative sources of funding through interaction with institutional donors, charity organizations, IFIs, international business associations to implement social, economic, environmental and humanitarian projects in the sub-region.

Under the guidance of the Deputy Head of Office/Head of Operations of the UNOPS Office in Ukraine, the Operations Specialist provides continuous support to the Head of Operations in leading all directions of the Office operations. This includes financial and human resources management, efficient procurement and logistical services, ICT, transportation and vehicle management, and security, consistent with UNOPS rules and regulations. The Operations Specialist also provides advice to the Office management on all operations matters. The main objective of the Operations Specialist’s is to ensure a smooth functioning of the Office, projects operations, consistent services delivery and constant evaluation and readjustment of the operations to take into account changes in the operating environment as and when needed. The Operations Specialist also coordinates all audit activities and acts as the focal point on all audit related issues including audit preparations, audit engagements, responses to audit queries and observations, follow-up on implementation of audit recommendations.

The Operations Specialist guides the Office Operations Team and fosters collaboration within the team, with project staff and project stakeholders. The Operations Specialist works in close collaboration with programme/project teams in the Office, operations staff in other UN Agencies, UNOPS HQs staff and governmental institutions and officials to successfully deliver operations services.

For more details about the vacancy and application, please follow this link: 

https://jobs.unops.org/pages/viewvacancy/VADetails.aspx?id=15668